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...suspicious of real estate industry hope and hype, listen to Barbara Allen, housing-industry analyst for Kidder, Peabody: "It's more than a little upturn. It's quite powerful, and it is across the country. In Chicago orders in the resale market for the first two months of the year were up smartly. In St. Louis the place is absolutely booming." Realtors who were doing the crosswords a month ago now have waiting rooms full of eager clients...
...whole new ball of wax," Parsons said. "It's not the same kind of hype as before. It's just music--not a party...
Defenders of the publish-first route maintain that the peer-review system, introduced in England in 1665, is a crucial quality-control mechanism. "It avoids mistakes," declares Dr. Arnold Relman, editor of the N.E.J.M. "It minimizes the hype, exaggeration and biases and prevents the dissemination of premature and unwarranted conclusions. Short-circuiting that process is not a good idea...
...blowhard with an ego like a Mack truck, whose main aim was to parlay a genius for negotiation (which he had) into a Nobel Peace Prize (which, luckily for the prestige of that award, he never got). His career as humanitarian and Maecenas was loud, insubstantial and based on hype, although he did do one good thing for the National Gallery in Washington by giving it a major collection of old masters drawings, many bought with the advice of its own experts...
...hype and glitz, the cocky 49ers infuriated their coach, Seth Greenberg--a dead-ringer for Douglas Brackman of L.A. Law. They boasted a lot. They joked around a lot. But they never buckled down long enough to put away the upstarts from the Ivies. Taking what Greenberg described as "an abundance of bad shots," they were outhustled from the start and no matter how often Greenberg--another non-Californian if ever there was one--yapped at his home court referees, he couldn't buy a call...